Mainly weekends when it wasn't raining, I should have logged the hours. It was fun, I was single then and loved to push dirt around. This time I don't think it will take as long. My buddy will be manning the hoe and I will truck it out of the hole and run the dozer. If it wasn't raining so much here I would start this weekend and keep a trash pump on hand. The new hoe, well old hoe, has a 32" bucket that brings up a lot of dirt. I dug a 7'x7'x7' hole in a few minutes, it filled with water in 2 rains in 1 week. I'm working on some shape and dimensions from an arial map right now.